Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Pylopulmonata > Superfamily Pyramidelloidea > Family Pyramidellidae > Genus Megastomia

Megastomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1814)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Megastomia*	Monterosato, 1884	accepted genus name
*Evelynella*	Laws, 1940	synonym
*Odostomia (Megastomia)*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Stomega*	Dall & Bartsch, 1904	synonym

Species group names

*Odostomia tenuis*	Jeffreys, 1884	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Eulima monodon*	Requien, 1848	synonym
*Odostomia conoidea*	(Brocchi, 1814)	synonym
*Odostomia conoidea var. australis*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Odostomia nagli*	Brusina, 1865	synonym
*Odostomia scotica*	Winckworth, 1932	synonym
*Odostomia sicula*	R. A. Philippi, 1851	synonym
*Ovatella polita*	Bivona e Bernardi, 1832	synonym
*Rissoa polita*	Scacchi, 1836	synonym
*Turbo conoideus*	Brocchi, 1814	synonym

Literature

additional source	Landau, B.M. & Micali, P. (2021). The Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 13: Murchisonelloidea and Pyramidelloidea. Cainozoic Research. 21(2): 201-393.
additional source	Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F.; Landau B. M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (fine). Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 89-176.
additional source	Peñas, A. & Rolán, E. (1999). La familia Pyramidellidae Gray, 1840 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterostropha) en Africa Occidental. 4. los géneros Megastomia, Odostomia, Noemiamea y Syrnola. Iberus. supplement 5 [to vol. 17]: 1-150.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megastomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224401